The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-12-23
LOCAL BREyITIEs.
Matters Of Minor Moment In and About

matters OF Minor Moment In md About
the City.
TIE Grand this evening = Florence
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MAJOR oAar at the Capitol rink this
evening. 500
Jusr enough snow fell yesterday to give
hopes oil the traditional white Christmas"
EXHIBITION drill and benefit ball Of
Uniformed Rank X. Of P. at Arion hall
this evening. gl7l75 HD.-
The vigilant reel collded with tho en-
CINE on North Main street and broke the
tongue Of the reel. 4,
The vontureeome small boy on skates
was trying tho ahore ice on tho Island side
above the Suspension bridge yesterday
almost before 1t was visible 10 the naked
eye. ~. ,g.7
JENNIE RANDALL was fined so and
costs In the police court yesterday for
keeping house Of III fame, and the FIVE
inmates Of her house S. and costs each.
All paid their ilnes.
THE City Board OF Police and Fro
Commandments met last night instead OF
next Monday evening, that being a holt
day. Nothing was done but to audit bills
and altond 10 other purely routine bust.
ness. I-5 . 4.
A YOUNG lady who was walking down
Market street yesterday and looking in
thewindowe too intently atumbled into
an open coal hole in front Of Hoge's hard.
ware store. Fortunately she was not hurt
much. III .a...
CLERK Hook yesterday admitted to
record deed made October II, 1885, by
Martha 8. Eerrel and others to Emma B.
Caldwell, In consideration OF $l,400, for
part OF lot 20 and all Of lots "a and q In
the town OF West Liberty.
THE matter OF confirming tho sale by
Special Commissioners George B. Cald.
well and William Erakiue Of the lots into
which the old fair grounds property was
divided, came up in the Circuit Court yes.
terday, but ita consideration was postpon.
ed till another day.
FRANK PRgRINE, IN Italian indicted for
petit larceny and accused OF stealing q
watch from Louis Messina, the keeper Of
an Italian boarding house on the corne,
Of Twelfth and Water streets, was tried In
Part l Of the Circuit Court yesterday, DO.
fore Judge Boyd, and acquitted.
JULIUS FISHER, a mail carrier, was struck
by the Wheeling Express at Cochran's
Mills, on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
"Wednesday morning and instantly killed.
The body was taken to Pittsburgh and
taken to Trexler & Fullerton's. An In.
quest will be held this morning at nine
O'Clock.
TIE explosion Of the torpedo in "Fogg'e
Ferry" and the saving Of the steamer by
"Chip" is everywhere pronounced the
handaomest on the stage. The company
carry this scene entire. Charming Lizzie
Evans will appear in her great character
OF "Ohip" at the Xmas matinee at the
Opera House next Monday afternoon.
In women's walking match which
opened at Kansas City on Monday and to
close Saturday night, tho contestants are
Nine. LaOhapille, OF Montreal; Lilly Lee,
Wheeling, W. Va; Aggie Longstreet,
Atlanta, Ga. Jennie R. Cleveland, Bufa.
10, N. W; Mary Anderson, Louisville, KY.
Bessie Cronan, New York and Clara Won
Berg, Chicago. Does any body here know
Lilly? !.
CHRISTMAS trcea and evergreens for
holiday trimmings are more abundant
and cheaper in the Wheeling markets this
yesr than ever before. Everybody in the
Second ward, nearly, has them for sale.
Dir. Isaac sadler, at tho old Armstrong
Coen planning mill, has several hundred
OF the prettiest trees ever seen, which he
furnishes with beses and is selling out fast
at from cents to s..